Hebrew word · Strong's H1980

הָלַךְ

hâlak · haw-lak' · verb · “to walk, go”

In a sentence

Halak means to walk or go — and in Hebrew, “walking with God” is a vivid picture of the whole life of faith. Enoch and Noah “walked with God.”

Halak is to walk or go. It quickly becomes a picture for the whole conduct of life: Enoch and Noah “walked with God”; Micah summarizes true religion as “to walk humbly with your God.”

The New Testament inherits the picture: believers “walk by the Spirit,” “walk in the light,” “walk in love.” The Christian life is a moving thing, taken one step at a time.

Strong's reference

Definition: to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, [phrase] be eased, enter, exercise (self), [phrase] follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), [phrase] greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, [idiom] more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), [phrase] send, speedily, spread, still, surely, [phrase] tale-bearer, [phrase] travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-) faring man, [idiom] be weak, whirl.

Reference gloss from Strong's Concordance (1890, public domain).

Key verses BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

Genesis 5:24 “Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.” Micah 6:8 “He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?” 1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

Original BibleDawn word study. Original-language data and the public-domain Strong's (1890) gloss are referenced; see sources.